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These are the [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]].
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See also the character sheet for ''[[The Silmarillion/Characters|The Silmarillion]]'' and ''[[The Hobbit (novel)/Characters|The Hobbit]]'', which are set in the same universe (and, indeed, feature some of the same characters).
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** [[Verbal Tic Name]]
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]
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=== Tom Bombadil ===
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* [[Rhymes on a Dime]]: Tom is a funny little man who loves to speak in rhyme and verse.
* [[Shrug of God]]: Tolkien deliberately left his true nature obscure. Fan debate has raged for decades.
* [[Single
* [[Stating the Simple Solution]]: It's suggested that Gandalf give Tom the ring since Tom is immune to the ring's power. Gandalf shoots that down immediately because
*# Tom is a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] that can't be trusted with such a serious responsibility,
*# the ring will only stay with people it can use or has need of which Tom is neither; the ring would try to leave and Tom would let it due to the first reason,
*# Gandalf doubts that even Tom could keep out the entire horde of Sauron if they learn he has the ring, and
*# Tom is tied to his forest and, while he might be able to leave it, is implied to be much weaker outside of it and Sauron is already poised to conquer middle earth so simply keeping the ring from Sauron wouldn't have saved the day regardless.
* [[Time Abyss]]: He's older than the world.
* [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]]
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* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: Wearing the Ring makes you invisible in the normal world, but you become visible in the Wraith-World, where you can be seen by Sauron and his Ringwraiths.
* [[Kill It with Fire]]
* [[Logical Weakness]]: The One Ring is a powerful [[Amplifier Artifact]] and the [[Soul Jar]] for the dark lord Sauron. It is sentient and can influence the world around it subtly. However it isn't all-powerful and has limits/weaknesses.
** For all of its power, it's just a ring. It can't go anywhere or do anything on its own. It sat a the bottom of a river for over a thousand years until it was found.
** It corrupts by twisting and using the greatest desires of the people who wear it. It's ability to corrupt is dependent on the ambitions or how strong the wearer's desires are. Those with small desires or no strong desires are best to handle it as it would take time for them to be corrupted.
** It cannot corrupt those who are beyond its creator's power and by extension, beyond its power.
* [[Lust Object]]
* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]
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* [[Casting a Shadow]]: Like her mother, she weaves webs of Unlight that are perceptible to the Hobbits.
* [[Dragon with an Agenda]]: Sauron treats her as his pet. Shelob doesn't care. He actually compares her to a pet cat, as she was a pet that rejected his authority.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: A borderline case as she is the offspring of a "natural" giant spider and Ungoliant, a primal spirit of darkness that would take the form of a giant spider-like thing. Shelob is twisted and demonic looking with features that aren't shared with other giant spiders and she inherited some of her mother's power such as spinning webs of darkness. It's also implied that she had other abilities but never gets the chance to showcase them.
* [[Eye Scream]]: Sam stabs her in one eye with Sting during their fight, and then blinded in her other eyes by the Phial of Galadriel.
* [[Giant Spider]]: Really just a spider-like monster, described to have pincers in her feet and great insect-like eyes, among other taxonomical oddities.
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* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Her ultimate goal seems to be to eat ''the whole planet''. Mercifully, she's nowhere near accomplishing that. Ungoliant, her mother, tried and failed at this as well. She ended up ''eating herself.''
* [[Primal Fear]]
*[[Semi-Divine]]: Shelob is a child of Ungoliant, which was a primal spirit of darkness that originated from the void around creation and Arda. While Ungoliant wasn't a Valar nor created by Eru, she was in the same category of power as the Valar and as a spirit of the same type of being though twisted and monsterous.
* [[Shrug of God]]: Whether Sam killed her or not.
* [[Spiders Are Scary]]
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* [[Whip It Good]]: He uses a flaming whip [[Dual Wield|in conjunction with]] a [[Flaming Sword]].
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